Real-time prognostic and health management system, program product, and associate methods
First Claim
1. A real-time prognostics and health management system for one or more electronic devices, mechanical devices, and electromechanical devices, the prognostics and health management system comprising:
- a tangible and non-transitory memory preloaded with prognostics and health management signature data, the prognostics and health management signature data comprising a plurality of prognostics and health management statuses each describing a different operating state of one or more devices comprising one or more of the following;
electronic devices, mechanical devices, and electromechanical devices;
one or more sensors that are adapted to monitor one or more parameters associated with the one or more devices; and
a logic device configured to perform the following operatios;
calculating an address in the tangible and non-transitory memory of one of the plurality of prognostics and health management statuses, the respective status describing the present operating state of the one or more devices, andaccessing the tangible and non-transitory memory using the calculated address in real time to retrieve the prognostics and health management status of the one or more devices from among the plurality of other potential prognostics and health management statuses,wherein one or more parameter values associated with the one or more devices are utilized to calculate one or more portions of the address of the one of the plurality of prognostics and health management statuses describing the present operating state of the one or more devices, preloaded in the tangible and non-transitory memory.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a prognostics and health management (PHM) system for one or more electronic, electro-mechanical, pneudraulic and mechanical devices of an aircraft, and associated diagnostic methods and computer program products. The system includes a tangible and non-transitory memory preloaded with prognostics and health management signature data; one or more sensors that are adapted to monitor the one or more devices; and a logic device adapted to calculate an address and to access the tangible and non-transitory memory using the calculated address in real time. One or more portions of the calculated address are responsive to one or more parameter values associated with the sensors so that sensor parameter data determines the address into the memory. In the PHM system, the logic device is further adapted to generate a PHM alert in real time responsive to a value of the PHM signature data accessed at the address.
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1. A real-time prognostics and health management system for one or more electronic devices, mechanical devices, and electromechanical devices, the prognostics and health management system comprising:
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a tangible and non-transitory memory preloaded with prognostics and health management signature data, the prognostics and health management signature data comprising a plurality of prognostics and health management statuses each describing a different operating state of one or more devices comprising one or more of the following;
electronic devices, mechanical devices, and electromechanical devices;one or more sensors that are adapted to monitor one or more parameters associated with the one or more devices; and a logic device configured to perform the following operatios; calculating an address in the tangible and non-transitory memory of one of the plurality of prognostics and health management statuses, the respective status describing the present operating state of the one or more devices, and accessing the tangible and non-transitory memory using the calculated address in real time to retrieve the prognostics and health management status of the one or more devices from among the plurality of other potential prognostics and health management statuses, wherein one or more parameter values associated with the one or more devices are utilized to calculate one or more portions of the address of the one of the plurality of prognostics and health management statuses describing the present operating state of the one or more devices, preloaded in the tangible and non-transitory memory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A diagnostic method for identifying the state of one or more electronic, mechanical devices, and electromechanical, the method comprising the steps of:
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generating prognostics and health management signature data for one or more devices associated with an aircraft, the prognostics and health management signature data comprising a plurality of prognostics and health management statuses each describing a different operating state of one or more devices, the one or more devices comprising one or more of the following;
electronic devices, mechanical devices, and electromechanical devices;preloading the prognostics and health management signature data for the one or more devices associated with the aircraft into a tangible and non-transitory memory, the preloaded prognostics and health management signature data comprising a plurality of prognostics and health management statuses each describing a different operating state of the one or more devices; determining a first memory address portion from a first digital parameter value associated with one or more of the one or more devices; determining a second memory address portion from a second digital parameter value associated with one or more of the one or more devices; and accessing the prognostics and health management signature data to retrieve a prognostics and health management status of the one or more devices describing a present operating state thereof from among the plurality of prognostics and health management statuses, wherein a logic device generates a memory address of the prognostics and health management status of the one or more devices describing the present operating state thereof in real time, wherein the generated memory address comprises the first and second memory address portions determined from the respective first and second digital parameter values associated with the one or more devices. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer program product, stored on a tangible and non-transitory computer memory media, operable on a computer, the computer program product comprising a set of instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform the operations of:
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generating prognostics and health management signature data for one or more devices associated with an aircraft, the prognostics and health management signature data comprising a plurality of prognostics and health management statuses each describing a different operating state of one or more devices, the one or more devices comprising one or more of the following;
electronic devices, mechanical devices, and electromechanical devices;preloading preflight the prognostics and health management signature data for the one or more devices associated with the aircraft into a first tangible and non-transitory memory, the preloaded prognostics and health management signature data comprising a plurality of prognostics and health management statuses each describing a different operating state of the one or more devices; calculating an address in the first tangible and non-transitory memory of one of the plurality of prognostics and health management statuses, the respective status describing a present operating state of the one or more devices; accessing the first tangible and non-transitory memory using a calculated address in real time to generate a prognostics and health management alert in flight responsive to the prognostics and health management signature data located at the calculated address, wherein one or more address portions of the address in the first tangible and non-transitory memory are determined from one or more parameter values associated with the one or more devices, wherein the one or more address portions determined from the one or more parameter values are utilized to calculate the address in the first tangible and non-transitory memory of the one of the plurality of prognostics and health management statuses describing the present operating state of the one or more electronic devices; accessing post flight a second tangible and non-transitory memory to retrieve fault log data, including the prognostics and health management alert; and analyzing the fault log data to thereby provide a prognostics and health management status. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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